[HN Gopher] Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
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Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 63 points
Date : 2021-12-27 18:00 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (shkspr.mobi)
(TXT) w3m dump (shkspr.mobi)
| yosito wrote:
| Does anyone have any advice on how I can pay authors to get a
| copy of their eBook without going through Amazon or Google? I
| really don't want Big Tech or advertising companies profiling me
| based on the books I read, but I absolutely want to pay authors
| for their work.
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| I've considered torrenting books and just sending a check or
| something to authors, but I'd love to find a better way.
| [deleted]
| account-5 wrote:
| I like this, it seems like the sort of thing I might do, except I
| would probably spend way too long extracting the actual text and
| attempting to produce a "better" pdf. I would probably fail, and
| end up back with what this article produced.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| I wonder if this works for apps that have set
| WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SECURE
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Not without some kind of root access. But you can usually find
| an app that doesn't have that flag and can still decode DRM.
| goldcd wrote:
| I just pop my phone on the photo-copier. Damp postit on the
| ODF, auto-scrolls the screen on each cycle.
| alufers wrote:
| You are joking right? If not, I'd kill for a video of this
| setup working.
| alufers wrote:
| You can either use root access or disassemble the app, remove
| the flag, and then assemble it again. Impossible to do if the
| app uses SafetyNet though.
| Gigachad wrote:
| That setting is essentially malware and it's a huge shame that
| android added it.
| tjoff wrote:
| I'm flabbergasted that there at least isn't a developer-
| option to disable it.
| josephcsible wrote:
| You can use things like
| https://github.com/veeti/DisableFlagSecure to disable it if
| you're willing to unlock your bootloader and install
| Xposed. But yes, it's incredibly user-hostile of Google to
| provide this without giving the user a built-in way to
| override it.
| tommek4077 wrote:
| The point is, for every stupid DRM "solution" you come up
| with, some technical capable guy will find a way to crack
| this. Happens since more then 40 years in computer
| sience.
| Farbklex wrote:
| You can still use the tool scrcpy to stream a video of the
| screen via USB to a PC.
| userbinator wrote:
| I suppose this could be called the "semi-analog hole". I'd
| probably analyse the app first because these protections are
| usually quite trivial. I remember one a long time ago (PC-based),
| which was basically a PDF "encrypted" using a short XOR key and
| appended to the end of the executable.
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